doc/book/en/devweb/facets.rst
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:53:05 +0200
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[book] some more documentation and cleanups * merged existing facets documentation with the one I've just written and put almost everything within the code * added a note about __depends__ and __recommends__ and about the recommends semantic (extracted from a post on the ml) * added a note about write security checking (extracted from a post on the ml) * fixed some dumb sphinx errors

The facets system
-----------------

Facets allow to restrict searches according to some user friendly criterias.
CubicWeb has a builtin `facet`_ system to define restrictions `filters`_ really
as easily as possible.

Here is an exemple of the facets rendering picked from our
http://www.cubicweb.org web site:

.. image:: ../images/facet_overview.png

Facets will appear on each page presenting more than one entity that may be
filtered according to some known criteria.

Base classes for facets
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. automodule:: cubicweb.web.facet


.. _facet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_browser
.. _filters: http://www.cubicweb.org/blogentry/154152